2023 Master’s Degree Candidates’ Ceremony
Join us in celebrating CCA’s commencement class of 2023 master’s degree candidates.
Student Speaker
Wenmimareba Klobah
Wenmimareba Klobah
“My peers, co-conspirators, muses, and collaborators: I invite you all to the sounds of jazz. To the vulnerability of this world that you’ve all remained attuned to. In the halls of CCA, where we’ve allowed ourselves to be ridiculous and lovely, we’ve cultivated each other’s stories with such wondrous grace. As we acknowledge each other in the present, I can only imagine the worlds we will create in the future. We each have something so important to contribute, and I am honestly excited to see where our journeys take us.”
— Wenmimareba Klobah (MA Visual and Critical Studies and MFA Writing 2023), Graduate Student Speaker
Program
Master’s Degree Candidates’ Ceremony
Grand Marshal Introduction
Diane Christensen
Member, Board of Trustees
Academic Processional
President
Board of Trustees
Faculty
Candidates for the Master of Architecture Degree
Candidates for the Master of Advanced Architectural Design Degree
Candidates for the Master of Business Administration Degree
Candidates for the Master of Design in Interaction Design Degree
Candidates for the Master of Arts Degree
Candidates for the Master of Fine Arts Degree
President’s Address
Stephen Beal
President
Land Acknowledgment
CCA current and historical campuses are located in Huichin and Yelamu, also known as Oakland and San Francisco, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.
Professor Emeritus Announcement
Stephen Beal
Presentation of Distinguished Alumni
Keith Krumwiede
Dean of Architecture
Distinguished Alumni Address
Nastaran Mousavi RA
Co-founder of Studio BANAA, Design Director
Dane Bunton RA
Co-founder of Studio BANAA, Managing Principal
Student Remarks
Wenmimareba Klobah
MA Visual and Critical Studies and MFA Writing 2023
This year’s video documents the process of Kim mentoring a group of commencement students as they create their own wearable artifacts for this year’s ceremonies.
Alumni Video
With this year’s commencement theme of authentic transformation, we have selected and commissioned CCA alum Kim Xuan Pham (BFA Fashion Design 2019) to create a wearable artifact that speaks to her identity, craft, and time at CCA.
Kim Xuan Pham is a Vietnamese apparel designer based in San Francisco who embraces her journey as a first-generation college student in the creative field. In her practice, Kim seeks a deeper connection to the Vietnamese diaspora by weaving memories, dreams of familial heritage, and personal vulnerabilities into her craft and design practice.
In celebration of students embracing unconventional ceremony attire that expresses their identity and creativity, Kim mentored a select group of students from this year’s commencement class to create wearable artifacts that exemplify CCA’s creative process and values.
During her time at CCA, Kim participated in the Copenhagen Global Fashion Agenda Sustainability program and has designed for Athleta and Banana Republic.
Conferring of Degrees
Helen Maria Nugent
Dean of Design
Master of Architecture
Master of Advanced Architectural Design
Master of Business Administration
Master of Design in Interaction Design
Master of Arts
Master of Fine Arts
Presentation of the Class of 2023
Stephen Beal
Recessional
Members of the audience will please stand and remain in their places until the academic procession has left the hall. Music provided by The Ben Brussell Ensemble.
Master’s Degree Candidates
Celebrating 187 graduate students
Architecture
MArch Architecture
- Ayse Elif Aydinli
- adolfo cendejas
- Lucas Cornejo Saravia
- Huihui Dai
- Creagh Downing
- Saina Gorgani
- Martin Hitch
- Peter Tze Jew
- Kushal Ketan Jhaveri
- Anbin Liu
- Ki Schmidt
- Shreya Shankar
- Dazaun Soleyn
- Vishakh Hiren Surti
- Rebecca Velasquez
- Yichen Wang
- Elizabeth Wilson
- Weisheng Zhong
MAAD Advanced Architectural Design
- Kimia Bam farahnak
- Ali Farajmandi
- Gauri Mirashi
- Parham Nourikoupaei
- Simran Omer
Design
MFA Design
- Atharva
- Ziyan Cai
- Maria Cardenas
- Qingyi Chang
- Diya Chen
- Jordan Fitzgerald
- Ruisen He
- Hua Hsiang
- Shane Huang
- Zahra Jajarmikhayat
- Jinyao Jian
- Jin Kwon
(awarded posthumously) - Tracy J. Leeds
- Jiayue Li
- Taoyu Li
- Zhilin Li
- Shijia Luo
- Saleem Mboge
- Wenwen Nong
- Olutoni Olutomiwa
- Jiaxuan Peng
- Devan Ponce
- Brenden Pragasam
- Merhan Qutub
- Andrew Roque
- Athene Sofia Ruiz
- Anjni Shah
- Qian Sheng
- Rose Simonse
- Viola Zuobijia Sun
- Anjana Vas
- Titan Vicencio
(dual degree) - Yuxi Wu
- Xinyi Zeng
- Shuhan Zhao
- Yizhou Zhuang
MBA Design Strategy
- Erica Ales
- Spencer Bowen
- Ana Cecilia Castillo Morfin
- Sabrina Cismas
- Juan Alberto Hernandez Ardila
- Konstanty Hordynski
- Jinney Hee Kho
- Luke Rolka
- Lisa Helen Sanford
- Titan Vicencio
(dual degree) - Lexi Yan
MDes Interaction Design
- Gunjan Alagh
- Yagmur Alptekin
- Angela Becerra
- Gokul Beeda
- Anish Dasgupta
- Kshitija Suresh Dhumal
- Sumaiya Elahi
- Sharvil Prashant Ghanekar
- Kamayani Gupta
- James Hua
- Nikhila Isukapally
- Apeksha Jain
- Tanvi Ajay Jain
- Chandana Kashyap
- Rewa Ketkar
- Yuha Kim
- Rushabh Kulkarni
- Arushi Kumar
- Lakshmi Ajayan Kuruvath
- Christie Lee
- Artem Lepilin
- Ding Li
- Fangxin Li
- Elaine Lu
- Honey Mehta
- Vedanshi Mishra
- Wai Ho Justin Ng
- Rishikesh Vijay Nighot
- Nabhya Parmar
- Lucia Corazon Lopez Pineda
- Sakshi Raste
- Preet Ruparelia
- Rishi Sankhyayan
- Shreya Saraf
- Jiao Shi
- Xinyi Sun
- Ashok Suresh Thirunilathil
- Ashwin Suresh Thirunilathil
- Juanita Thota
- Emily Tsai
- Sonali Tungare Mehta
- Charmin Vemula
- Yuri Yasukawa
- Ocean Ersi Zhang
- Zhenzhe Zhu
Fine Arts
MFA Film
- Michael Anthony
- Bahar Gözmener
- Cheng Ji
- Angela Liu
- Jingjing Tang
- Weiming Wang
- Qi Yang
- Colin Zhang
- Yumo Zhang
MFA Fine Arts
- Manasa Thimmiya Appaneravanda
- Mary Campbell
- Carolina Cuevas
- Jianyuan Ding
- Dance Doyle
- Annie Duncan
- Liz Godbey
(dual degree) - Zijing Han
- Ingrid Henderson
- Gwendolyn Kim
- Charles H. Lee III
- Blanche Li
- Ching Fang (Merryta) Liu
- Haoyuan Lu
- Siyu Lyu
- Gabrielle Medina
- Diana Tiffany Mejia
- Eileen Parent
- Namita Paul
- Alejandro Perea
- Rossie
- Hao Tan
- Aster Topolski
- Marissa Tyler
- Jianfei Wang
- Lin Wang
- Qinru Xie
- Yike Zhang
Humanities and Sciences
MA Curatorial Practice
- Julianna Heller
- Zoe Latzer
- Meghan Smith
MA Visual and Critical Studies
- Liz Godbey
(dual degree) - Alexander Hwang
- Wenmimareba Klobah
(dual degree)
MFA Comics
- Erin Andrews
- Max Barnewitz
- J.D. Botana
- Julie E Cardenas
- Hugh D’Andrade
- Jessica Eth
- Elana Finkelstein
- Isaac Li
- Xiangrong Li
- Sara McGrath
- Emilie Tamura Miller
- Sam Moore
- Almudena Phillips
- Jessica Pinkerton
- Jamie Straw
- Zephyr W
- Haozhou Wang
- Xinrui Wang
MFA Writing
- Eman Al-Alami
- Julia Bibeth Campos
- Kristin Eade
- Ann-Marie Giglio
- Wenmimareba Klobah
(dual degree) - Maura Krause
- Rolando Andre Lopez
- Jessica O’Brien
- Taryn Shelby
- Faith Rowan Waters
CCA’s 116th Commencement celebrates students who completed their degree requirements in fall 2022, as well as students anticipated to complete their degrees in spring and summer 2023. Degrees will officially be conferred upon successful completion of all degree requirements.